The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn’t taught in school. It has to be picked up.
JIMMY PAGELive Aid did feel like one hour’s rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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I guess the solo from ‘Achilles Last Stand’ is in the same tradition as the solo from ‘Stairway to Heaven’ It is on that level to me.
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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I’m fine. I’m in another world – in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.
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I can only listen to what I’m working on, at the time. I can’t listen to anything else because I don’t want to copy it.
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I like change and I like contrast.
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The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.
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I know where I’m going musically. I can see my pattern and I’m going much slower than I thought I’d be going.
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall’s on `Reelin’ In The Years’.
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Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
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I don’t care what critics and other people think.
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When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I’m not a bloody blues guitarist. I’m a guitarist.
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There’s such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar… flamenco, jazz, rock, blues. You name it, it’s there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.
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Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you’re playing an instrument that is really hard.
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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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